1+ day, 14+ hour ago   (977+ words) For many of us, that truth becomes clearest in the verses that name the people the Torah commands us to protect. A Moment That Clarified Everything According to the witness, there was a brief pause, not of hesitation, but of…...

3+ day, 14+ hour ago   (463+ words) The following essay was written five years ago, just as the Covid Pandemic began, immediately after Purim in March 2020. It is amazing to think about what a different reality we lived in and how far Baruch Hashem we have come....

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (583+ words) A new language is taking shape before our eyes, and I encountered it three times this week. "Rani was proud to be a police officer. Not long ago, he came home from a violent demonstration and told me, "They spat…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (604+ words) There is a sacred principle that has accompanied the Jewish people throughout centuries of exile, persecution, and war: we do not leave anyone behind. It is not a slogan coined for moments of crisis, nor a line recited for comfort....

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (25+ words) Word Prompt " KLAL'The Jewish Press Click on the image below to view a full-page version. Scan this QR code to visit this page online:...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (220+ words) Rabbi Moshe Meir Weiss is now stepping-up his speaking engagement and scholar-in-residence weekends. To book him for a speaking circuit or evening in your community, please call Rabbi Daniel Green at 908.783.7321. To receive a weekly cassette tape or CD directly…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (72+ words) Double Trouble? "Two Handfuls" (Menachos 11b) During WWII, Jews were exiled from their homes. A letter was sent in that period by Rabbi Zev Landerer, a prominent personality of Krakow, who was then in exile in Siberia, to the Gaon of…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (1138+ words) There is a moment from under the chuppah that I return to again and again: four brothers'in'law standing around me, each holding one of the poles. I remember feeling gathered in, held up by my four new brothers. I was…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (399+ words) Question: Seemingly the only place in our Torah where the matter of a birthday celebration is mentioned is regarding the birthday of Pharaoh. The only birthday celebration that we as Jews celebrate is a bar mitzvah " a young man's 13th birthday....

4+ week, 2+ day ago   (623+ words) The RIBaL's Te'udah be-Yisrael'The Jewish Press One of the more significant acquisitions I made this week was a copy of Te'udah be-Yisrael (Testimony in Israel), the most influential work of Rabbi Isaac Baer Levinsohn (1788-1860), better known by the acronym RIBaL....